2012 Curriculum

Year 2 - My Olympics: "A flag that tells a story" (Flags and Maps)

Key Skills I can locate information on a map; I can recognize some of the different flags of countries in The Games; I can tell the story of some flags; I can use a range of media to design a flag to tell my own story; I can write the narrative that matches my flag;

• Tell the story of two different flags;
• Create a large scale (if not accurate) map of the world on the hall floor. Children play port-starboard type game, moving from continent to continent when the continent’s name is called out;
• Set up a World Café in the classroom, each table should be laid out with food from different continents – children carousel

Activities

• On a world map, children locate the different continents and some of the countries in The Games (be sure to represent all the countries of origin of the children in the class);
  
• Match a range of flags with their countries. Look at the colours/meanings of different flags;
  
• Plan and write a narrative eg the story of my life, my favourite things, what makes me, me? etc;
  
• Plan and draft a design for a flag;
  
  

• A colour coded map showing the different continents and some of the countries in The Games;
• Narrative;
• Flag and matching narrative – what the colours stand for etc. (differentiation: look at shapes of flags, do they have meaning?);
  
  

Resources

- Some of the flags and their meanings |
- Maps of the world | Country profiles |
- Foods from different continents
- Sheet of flags and what the colours stand for